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muddles through

muddles through is the third-person singular simple present indicative of muddle through.

Meaning of muddle through

Verb

muddle through (third-person singular simple present muddles through, present participle muddling through, simple past and past participle muddled through)

  1. (ambitransitive) To succeed (often clumsily) despite being ill-equipped or inadequately trained.
    • I’ve only had a few lessons, but I can muddle through the test.

Questions about muddles through

What is muddles through the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Muddles through is the third-person singular simple present indicative of muddle through.

Words near muddles through in the dictionary

  1. muddler
  2. muddlers
  3. muddles
  4. muddles along
  5. muddles the waters
  6. muddles through
  7. muddles up
  8. muddlesome
  9. muddliness
  10. muddling
  11. muddling along

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Adapted from Wiktionary: muddles through (page history and authors); muddle through (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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